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There are no doubt many good reasons to encourage a general technological literacy. Here is one: U.S. society purports to aspire to democracy. Insofar as we live in a technologically-mediated society, if we want that democracy to amount to more than the rule of an ignorant mob, the “people” need to have some understanding of the technologies surrounding them. At one level, this is clearly a political question, and questions about the limits of popular knowledge, how much technical skill is necessary to qualify as technologically literate, what sorts of reference frames can and should be brought to one’s understanding of technology, and so forth, immediately present themselves.
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Hull, G. (2013). Know thy Cyborg-Self. In: Clough, M.P., Olson, J.K., Niederhauser, D.S. (eds) The Nature of Technology. SensePublishers, Rotterdam. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-6209-269-3_3
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